3. Data and Digital Technology
Why
The Welsh Government A Healthier Wales plan for health and social care identified data as a key enabler of transformational change to support new models of care; Ensuring access to relevant, meaningful, accurate and complete information to support the delivery of safe, effective and timely primary and community care services is at the core of this workstream.
What
As an enabler the workstream sets out to address and support data, digital or technological requirements that may arise from associated programmes of work within the scope of primary and community care, working with partners to develop solutions. The workstream has three main functions:
- Awareness
Act as a peer/stakeholder reference group to sense check and provide formal or informal feedback regarding projects; noting alignment and connections to related work
- Influence
Actively engage with projects and provide advice to influence the development of products, suggesting alignments, and making connections with related work.
- Involvement
Receive proposals for new projects and become actively involved or collaborate in the project management and delivery of the work.
Who
The workstream membership is comprised of representatives from key areas of primary and community care, subject matter experts, and national stakeholders. If you would like further information on the current membership, please email SPPC@wales.nhs.uk.
Projects
Each project undertaken by the workstream is endorsed by the workstream group, approved by the Strategic Programme Board, then ratified by the National Primary Care Board. The current projects under development are noted below. If you would like further information on the current Terms of Reference for the workstream, please email SPPC@wales.nhs.uk.
The Escalation Framework project is intended to support reporting of system pressures for services in primary and community care. This will feed into Local Health Board safety huddles and the joint Welsh Government / NHS Wales safety huddles. The intention is to support the measurement of whole system the pressures across health and care services in Wales and raise the profile of primary and community services and their influence on the whole system.
The Healthy Days at Home Wales project is intended to create a suite of population-based quality measures, each providing a way to measure health and care systems across Wales that can be adapted to reflect local priorities. The project will deliver a national dashboard and support delivery of local Health Board dashboards. This project takes a ‘good enough’ approach as the dashboards are intended to be built upon with each new iteration.
The Primary Care Metrics project is intended to deliver a dashboard of minimum data sets, as identified through stakeholder engagement, to provide primary care information, that has face validity, is easily extractable, and currently available. This will be presented in an all Wales format for use in standardised messaging, for example, with the Health Minister, IQPDs and other key stakeholders. This project takes a ‘good enough’ approach as the dashboard is intended to be built upon with each new iteration.
The Demand and Capacity Tool for Primary Care project is intended to consolidate already available, disparate datasets into one application that is accessible by relevant stakeholders to deliver a systematic approach to workforce design, planning and organisational change across clusters to transform the primary care workforce. This project will focus on general medical services (GMS) however alignment with similar demand and capacity projects underway in relation to other primary and community care workforce groups will be established.
Products
Information about the products delivered by the Strategic Programme workstreams can be viewed as a continuous list or via workstream and year of achievement for ease of navigation. Please click the link below to access the library.
Library of products - Primary Care One (nhs.wales)
Contact
If you would like more information about this workstream or any of the associated work being delivered, please submit your query on the Contact us page.
Page last updated November 2023